The rarest promotion is my childhood animal crossing town opening ceremony that i showed off to my friends and gave them sun chips as a promotional item.
Do you ever fear that the amount of ACGC content to cover will shrink to zero? I know you are covering other games, but this is the one you know the most about, and presumably are the most comfortable talking about given your knowledge on it. Many people and I really want you to stay around in the long run, because your content is just the best.
It’s a legitimate concern, but I have enough topics left to last a good while. I typically find some other interesting things while researching other topics, so the list of video ideas grows over time. I’ll try to stick around as long as possible. 🙇♂️
I think with games of this era being shrouded in more mystery due to so much Japanese exclusive content, it would take quite awhile to go through all of the interesting content from AC. Look at a series like Kingdom Hearts. I've been a fan since the very beginning, and I still learn new things about it from the era when Japan was the only one with the final mix version. Additionally, if you know Japanese, old forums and articles are a gold mine of interesting topics that people in the west know little about. I'm sure Hunter can find things that very few people, if anyone, knows about. I'm always excited for new videos because I can never guess what's next!
@@Hunter-R. Out of options and desperate for some sort of resolution, Hunter knew what he needed to do. So he booked a plane ticket and got on a flight to Tokyo in search of answers.
Every time you upload a video I immediately recite the craziest information to my friend group as a sort of running gag "Today I learned that animal crossing has a glitch that creates an infinitely self replicating paper airplane that crashes your game" "today i learned that animal crossing wild world players could brick your ds by remotely hacking dozens of museums everywhere" now, I need to decide if I'm saying "today i learned that animal crossing players will spend $3,500 dollars and write fine poetry for a disc with a sticker on it" or "today i learned that animal crossing developed an entire game pak emulation system run natively in a controller and it was only ever used for 30 promotional copies of Ice Climber which no one is known to even own"
Before you tell your friends about the special fancy disc with a sticker on it, make sure you mention it looks to have a slightly different color compared to the normal disc. Very important.
Interesting to know that those "No for Resale" AC:GC discs came from a Nintendo contest, I always thought that was just the promotional discs that you saw in kiosks or stores like the demo discs. Well learnt something new today!.
'Not for resale' describes basically any copy of the game outside of normal retail distribution. Named so because they're meant to be returned or destroyed after their intended use, not sold. The term is also used outside of video games, but it's uncommon.
You know, I wouldn’t be surprised if one of those special ice climber memory cards is just in a thrift store somewhere in Japan much like how the Mario 64 disk drive prototype was. There is a higher chance too. I do hope however that the data on the card is built to be unable to be deleted or something because if you could just use it as a regular memory card imagine how many of the cards accidentally had the data deleted.
If it’s anything like a normal Controller Pak, then you could hold start when booting up a supported game and delete the files on the Pak… The menu to do so is a bit out of the way, so if one is ever found, I hope the data would still be intact. 🙏
@@Hunter-R. I could have sworn most games that support the save paks like perfect dark and such give you a direct menu through the game menus in order to edit save data or whatever. I could Be wrong but idk.
Yea, every game that supports the Controller Pak (Doubutsu no Mori included) was required to have a memory manager screen that could be accessed by holding start on boot up. You could access this menu elsewhere if the developers wanted, but I believe Nintendo explicitly required the “hold start” option.
I'm not sure different memory types were even supported, and I can't imagine them going to the effort of making a ROM Controller Pak just for this tiny distribution.
@@Hunter-R. I think DnM can bring it up if you try to save a letter to the controller pak with not enough room left as well. (This *used* to be detailed on the TCRF page (because someone thought it had to do with Famicom ROMs specifically) but was removed in May of this year because it's... well... used (and unrelated to ROMs specifically).)
I feel bad for anyone that picked the golden shovel for the Wild World promotion, instead of any tool that requires actual time and effort to obtain normally.
Hunter R videos are the kind of videos that i play in the background with the sound off to give them an early view, but then i save them up to actually watch them when i have a really good meal to go with them
Honestly, it makes my heart ache, the memories of that bygone era. Modern gaming doesn't have things like this, at least not commonly. The original game is a great example of the Japan Galapagos phenomenon...and the further that time has marched on, the more the game has stopped reflecting that.
I wonder about the memory cards distributed for the sweepstakes for Super Mario Bros. in Doubutsu no Mori+, which also only had 30 copies. It probably came with a special letter…
True! We may never know what that letter said… but at least the Super Mario Bros. item itself can be obtained with a Nook Code and the data actually exists in the game, unlike DnM’s Ice Climber.
I got mine complete with a not for resale cover art. Later on, I ended up finding the calendar and original cover art for the game and graded it and gave it to my friend since he's a bigger fan of og AC 😊
I was one of the people who won the AC pioneer contest. We had to write a strictly 50-word blurb on why we deserved a beta copy and I remember using every word. It came with two copies of the game and an Animal Crossing calendar, I gave a copy to my friend who lived across the street from me. I ended up throwing away the calendar and I sold my copy for 20$ on ebay about a decade ago after concluding it was worthless. I couldn't even find info online confirming that the pioneer program ever existed. Only in recent years did info about it start popping up again and people are like "I want one!". Still kicking myself for selling it
Hearing hunter read off the names of his supporters goes to show that he is truly thankful for all of the donations, and the fact he thanks us individually is so heartwarming and I smile when I hear mine.
Hello. I'm writing all of you to let you know that I did have the controller pack back in 2008. I sold it to some guy in norway. I sold it for like $220 a long time ago and I don't know the username. I tried to look it up to see who the user was and it doesn't show me the history of my eBay sales. I'm sorry but I have to let you know that this happened around November 2008. I needed the money really badly to get a pre-order the special edition of wrath of the Lich King for World of Warcraft on my PC at the time. I have no idea why or how this channel was recommended to me but I just wanted to let you all know that there is a guy in Norway that has this because I obtained it from somebody back in 2004 when I was playing Phantasy Star Online and collecting Japanese stuff in general. Godspeed..
If you still have your emails from back then, it's possible a reference to the buyer could be in one of those. eBay doesn't like to display old data anymore for some reason.
This might be a widely known fact, but here in America, Nintendo set up those distribution hotspots using a standard Nintendo ds, and a special distribution cartridge. This is how event pokemon were distributed, and it wouldn't surprise me if the animal crossing items were distributed in the same way. So in theory, if we could track down a distribution cart, and dump it, we could see the other three letters.
Man I sure hope we dump that Ice Climbers controller pack one day. If we fig out how the ROM was prepared, we could inject games into dobutsu no mori like how we can in the GameCube version! ...Assuming it is exactly the same as the GameCube version.
Wouldn't doubt it existing at all on GC is due to the code already being there, so they probably ported the code over and never did anything with it beyond testing.
I haven't touched animal crossing in years. Never bothered to pick up new horizons when it got released, but I do like the character customization very much. If you can't think of anything interesting to make a video on, maybe you can do one on items that were added and removed in subsequent games.(Can't remember if you did one like that already idk) I think my favorite one of these is the clavecin/harpsichord. In real life, its my favorite sounding instrument and the physical traditonal iconography on one is as much a piece of art as the sounds its makes They added them in new leaf, only to forget them in New horizons. Don't really matter, as its litteral pixels on a game ive never touched, but still, when i still played the GCN and new leaf, i was always appreciative of a classical, almost courtly interior. I would have one room with all sorts of antiques, and the upstairs would be my "office" where i would put desks, suit jackets, and if i had room, expensive items for HRA. Pretending i was some sort of important individual who just happened to be blending in with animals for some reason. Thats also why i thought the character had horns. I thought humans were banned in town or something so to fool the animals you would wear goats horns or something lol
1.2 thousand dollars extra for a Calender from over 20 years ago and a letter not adressed to you. i wanted to joke about this being a waste of money, but i realize as im typing that that sounds cool as hell.
Yep, Cuyler and I looked into it recently and he just updated his AC NES Creator program to support writing a N64 Controller Pak file. I’d stay tuned for some more on this in the future… 😉
@@kimjrYT Should be ready for a public release sometime this year, hopefully sooner rather than later! You may be disappointed by support for Doubutsu no Mori due to the meager 32KB of space the controller pak gives. Even compressing the roms using the best SZP compressor currently available, most games are unable to fit within the space. Only the most basic games can fit. Regardless it's really cool to see it and it's also likely possible to achieve ACE and inject small mods using it similar to how the GC one is able to be exploited.
I wonder if you could feasibly make your own N64 controller pak with a rom in it, label and all, and have it load ingame. That'd be like the weirdest possible NES/FC game collection.
@SageArdor When a engineering sample, serial #0001 console costs 1k$, you know this price of this is inflated. 99% of games don't sell, the merch that does stands out. Prerelease merch and engineering samples are in completely different ballparks in value. This game shouldn't be bought for more than 400.
Another Hunter R. classic!
Seriously, though. If anyone has a Pioneer copy for sale... hit me up 🙏
CAKE???
@@baspostscrap Nah, it's a lie!
@@gferrol118its real cake
My boy Cake watches the best channels!
Cake
The rarest promotion is my childhood animal crossing town opening ceremony that i showed off to my friends and gave them sun chips as a promotional item.
I hope a lost media TH-camr talks about this soon. Such a gold mine of a topic that so many super fans have forgotten about.
That's really adorable actually????
yo i was there, actually. thanks for the sun chips bro
Do you ever fear that the amount of ACGC content to cover will shrink to zero? I know you are covering other games, but this is the one you know the most about, and presumably are the most comfortable talking about given your knowledge on it.
Many people and I really want you to stay around in the long run, because your content is just the best.
He's said before that he doesn't worry about that happening any time soon.
It’s a legitimate concern, but I have enough topics left to last a good while. I typically find some other interesting things while researching other topics, so the list of video ideas grows over time.
I’ll try to stick around as long as possible. 🙇♂️
I think with games of this era being shrouded in more mystery due to so much Japanese exclusive content, it would take quite awhile to go through all of the interesting content from AC. Look at a series like Kingdom Hearts. I've been a fan since the very beginning, and I still learn new things about it from the era when Japan was the only one with the final mix version.
Additionally, if you know Japanese, old forums and articles are a gold mine of interesting topics that people in the west know little about. I'm sure Hunter can find things that very few people, if anyone, knows about. I'm always excited for new videos because I can never guess what's next!
@@Hunter-R. Ive never played Animal Crossing but your vids are so good i keep watching so yes stick around
I give you the highest honor i can give, watching you while eating a meal.
Same here! 🥪
It’s like we’re all eating a meal together 🥰
every video of his i have watched while eating
@@prolib9046 sameeee
That's a great honor. I chose series 5 of top gear with the Ariel atom
Sounds like we need a Hunter R. "Searching for an Ice Climber Controller Pak in Japan" vlog now...
Booking my flight now to search all of Japan. 🫡
@@Hunter-R. I'm sure you could rope in Japan Eat to divide and conquer 😉
@@Hunter-R. Out of options and desperate for some sort of resolution, Hunter knew what he needed to do. So he booked a plane ticket and got on a flight to Tokyo in search of answers.
Every time you upload a video I immediately recite the craziest information to my friend group as a sort of running gag
"Today I learned that animal crossing has a glitch that creates an infinitely self replicating paper airplane that crashes your game"
"today i learned that animal crossing wild world players could brick your ds by remotely hacking dozens of museums everywhere"
now, I need to decide if I'm saying "today i learned that animal crossing players will spend $3,500 dollars and write fine poetry for a disc with a sticker on it" or "today i learned that animal crossing developed an entire game pak emulation system run natively in a controller and it was only ever used for 30 promotional copies of Ice Climber which no one is known to even own"
Before you tell your friends about the special fancy disc with a sticker on it, make sure you mention it looks to have a slightly different color compared to the normal disc. Very important.
I don't think it's a sticker? It's a different version of the label.
@@mx.blackhole7615 It's not a STICKER it's PRINTED ON! But it's still just as meaningless
@@renakunisaki well. yeah.
@@mx.blackhole7615 That's probably just due to how it was scanned.
Interesting to know that those "No for Resale" AC:GC discs came from a Nintendo contest, I always thought that was just the promotional discs that you saw in kiosks or stores like the demo discs.
Well learnt something new today!.
They were also used for kiosks
'Not for resale' describes basically any copy of the game outside of normal retail distribution. Named so because they're meant to be returned or destroyed after their intended use, not sold. The term is also used outside of video games, but it's uncommon.
You know, I wouldn’t be surprised if one of those special ice climber memory cards is just in a thrift store somewhere in Japan much like how the Mario 64 disk drive prototype was. There is a higher chance too. I do hope however that the data on the card is built to be unable to be deleted or something because if you could just use it as a regular memory card imagine how many of the cards accidentally had the data deleted.
If it’s anything like a normal Controller Pak, then you could hold start when booting up a supported game and delete the files on the Pak… The menu to do so is a bit out of the way, so if one is ever found, I hope the data would still be intact. 🙏
@@Hunter-R. I could have sworn most games that support the save paks like perfect dark and such give you a direct menu through the game menus in order to edit save data or whatever. I could
Be wrong but idk.
Yea, every game that supports the Controller Pak (Doubutsu no Mori included) was required to have a memory manager screen that could be accessed by holding start on boot up. You could access this menu elsewhere if the developers wanted, but I believe Nintendo explicitly required the “hold start” option.
I'm not sure different memory types were even supported, and I can't imagine them going to the effort of making a ROM Controller Pak just for this tiny distribution.
@@Hunter-R. I think DnM can bring it up if you try to save a letter to the controller pak with not enough room left as well. (This *used* to be detailed on the TCRF page (because someone thought it had to do with Famicom ROMs specifically) but was removed in May of this year because it's... well... used (and unrelated to ROMs specifically).)
I feel bad for anyone that picked the golden shovel for the Wild World promotion, instead of any tool that requires actual time and effort to obtain normally.
Hunter R videos are the kind of videos that i play in the background with the sound off to give them an early view, but then i save them up to actually watch them when i have a really good meal to go with them
Honestly, it makes my heart ache, the memories of that bygone era. Modern gaming doesn't have things like this, at least not commonly. The original game is a great example of the Japan Galapagos phenomenon...and the further that time has marched on, the more the game has stopped reflecting that.
You're never going to run out of ideas lmao
I wonder about the memory cards distributed for the sweepstakes for Super Mario Bros. in Doubutsu no Mori+, which also only had 30 copies. It probably came with a special letter…
True! We may never know what that letter said… but at least the Super Mario Bros. item itself can be obtained with a Nook Code and the data actually exists in the game, unlike DnM’s Ice Climber.
Another amazing and super interesting video. Thanks for sharing. I had no idea about the Ice Climber control pak. The search begins… 😆
ah yes, a fresh new aninal crossing video to watch at 1am with the worst cold ive ever had. Thanks Hunter
feel better dude!
@@TypeHoeNegative thx (also i didnt get any sleep at all lmao)
Man, Animal crossing history and trivia is just so interesting for some reason, and you present everything very well!
I got mine complete with a not for resale cover art. Later on, I ended up finding the calendar and original cover art for the game and graded it and gave it to my friend since he's a bigger fan of og AC 😊
I was one of the people who won the AC pioneer contest. We had to write a strictly 50-word blurb on why we deserved a beta copy and I remember using every word. It came with two copies of the game and an Animal Crossing calendar, I gave a copy to my friend who lived across the street from me. I ended up throwing away the calendar and I sold my copy for 20$ on ebay about a decade ago after concluding it was worthless. I couldn't even find info online confirming that the pioneer program ever existed. Only in recent years did info about it start popping up again and people are like "I want one!". Still kicking myself for selling it
The AC movie mention and KK Bossa playing at the end. Man, I love that movie....
Hearing hunter read off the names of his supporters goes to show that he is truly thankful for all of the donations, and the fact he thanks us individually is so heartwarming and I smile when I hear mine.
You could buy a car for as much money as these Pioneer copies sell for, and if you're lucky and find one cheap, you're in for a big payday
Hello. I'm writing all of you to let you know that I did have the controller pack back in 2008. I sold it to some guy in norway. I sold it for like $220 a long time ago and I don't know the username. I tried to look it up to see who the user was and it doesn't show me the history of my eBay sales. I'm sorry but I have to let you know that this happened around November 2008. I needed the money really badly to get a pre-order the special edition of wrath of the Lich King for World of Warcraft on my PC at the time. I have no idea why or how this channel was recommended to me but I just wanted to let you all know that there is a guy in Norway that has this because I obtained it from somebody back in 2004 when I was playing Phantasy Star Online and collecting Japanese stuff in general. Godspeed..
If you still have your emails from back then, it's possible a reference to the buyer could be in one of those. eBay doesn't like to display old data anymore for some reason.
This might be a widely known fact, but here in America, Nintendo set up those distribution hotspots using a standard Nintendo ds, and a special distribution cartridge. This is how event pokemon were distributed, and it wouldn't surprise me if the animal crossing items were distributed in the same way. So in theory, if we could track down a distribution cart, and dump it, we could see the other three letters.
Babe wake up, animal crossing video time!
Your followers count is going up! Looking forward to you hitting 100k soon
Under 1 minute gang. Perfect break watching.
6 minuter here :3
16 mins cuz i just got home
Being that early on a Hunter R. video feels illegal!
Who? 🫣
Uhm... it's a bit late for me. Hunter R, of course! 😂
I wish the note in a bottle item from WW made it to NH. Seems fitting for the island getaway theme!
KK Bossa has become my favorite kk song ever since seeing the movie
Another Hunter R. Banger.
Your videos are so calming. Probably helps that they’re revolve around animal crossing also! How often would you say you play AC?
Its actually crazy how much i look forward to your videos
Man I sure hope we dump that Ice Climbers controller pack one day.
If we fig out how the ROM was prepared, we could inject games into dobutsu no mori like how we can in the GameCube version! ...Assuming it is exactly the same as the GameCube version.
Wouldn't doubt it existing at all on GC is due to the code already being there, so they probably ported the code over and never did anything with it beyond testing.
I know absolutely nothing about the Ice Climber N64 pack thingy. Hope this helps :)
I haven't touched animal crossing in years. Never bothered to pick up new horizons when it got released, but I do like the character customization very much. If you can't think of anything interesting to make a video on, maybe you can do one on items that were added and removed in subsequent games.(Can't remember if you did one like that already idk)
I think my favorite one of these is the clavecin/harpsichord. In real life, its my favorite sounding instrument and the physical traditonal iconography on one is as much a piece of art as the sounds its makes
They added them in new leaf, only to forget them in New horizons. Don't really matter, as its litteral pixels on a game ive never touched, but still, when i still played the GCN and new leaf, i was always appreciative of a classical, almost courtly interior. I would have one room with all sorts of antiques, and the upstairs would be my "office" where i would put desks, suit jackets, and if i had room, expensive items for HRA. Pretending i was some sort of important individual who just happened to be blending in with animals for some reason. Thats also why i thought the character had horns. I thought humans were banned in town or something so to fool the animals you would wear goats horns or something lol
just in time for my lunch break
eating food while watching your videos makes my food taste so much better
Now that seems greatly interesting!
Regarding the ROM loading, I wonder if at one point they had intentions of Randnet ROM distribution, or if that dream had already died by 2000.
Babe wake up new hunter r vid just dropped
Wonder what it was like to get these back in the day?
Yeah, you and me are locked in.
The fact that the region code on the disc is DIS is amusing.
another banger video, and another week closer to printing custom cards♡
yay a new video!!!
1.2 thousand dollars extra for a Calender from over 20 years ago and a letter not adressed to you. i wanted to joke about this being a waste of money, but i realize as im typing that that sounds cool as hell.
wake up hunter r posted
OMG Japan eat is a patreon supporter thats absolutly amazing
I have a promotional hand fan (like the ones in AC GCN but in real life) for the Doubutsu no Mori film.
wow, I got here earlier than expected.
Y'all are awesome.
Yay new video
I never knew Justin Trudeau was into AC
If someone finds one of those controller packs you better mention it in a video!
Wow awesome sauce!
Please do a video about the Wild World Mario items available through download play at Toys R Us :)
puyo puyo mentioned o.o
Is it possible to inject NES ROMs to the N64 version as well?
NES emulation on N64 sounds surreal for some reason.
hunterrforever
how do you have such nice graphics for new leaf/wild world omg
ive been here since 800 subs!!
Do what nick robinsen did and search in JAPANESE!
Trust me, I've tried that as well.
Wouldn't the battery in the controller pack be replaceable?
Nice chil, video.
can we please talk about ac amiibo party its my favourite
I love your channel
Under 30 mins!
NEW VIDEO
Heck yeah!!
YIPPIE
3:40 He really said "That's oomf 😭"
Yay🎉
is it possible to make a program like we have for the game cube version to load roms onto Nintendo64 memory paks ?
Yep, Cuyler and I looked into it recently and he just updated his AC NES Creator program to support writing a N64 Controller Pak file. I’d stay tuned for some more on this in the future… 😉
@@Hunter-R. I'm looking forward to that 240p goodness
@@kimjrYT Should be ready for a public release sometime this year, hopefully sooner rather than later! You may be disappointed by support for Doubutsu no Mori due to the meager 32KB of space the controller pak gives. Even compressing the roms using the best SZP compressor currently available, most games are unable to fit within the space. Only the most basic games can fit. Regardless it's really cool to see it and it's also likely possible to achieve ACE and inject small mods using it similar to how the GC one is able to be exploited.
@@Cuyler god speed king
Hi
Mmmmmyeah, I'm afraid if you manage to find an Ice Climbers controller pack, it's more than likely dead by now. Sorry 'bout that.
Other Controller Pak batteries have lasted longer! I’m hopeful… 🥲
hiya
e reader video?
YOOO
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I wonder if you could feasibly make your own N64 controller pak with a rom in it, label and all, and have it load ingame.
That'd be like the weirdest possible NES/FC game collection.
2 hour gang
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BABE WAKE UP ITS TIME FOR ANOTHER VIDEO ABOUT USELESS ANIMAL CROSSING TRIVIA
8 mins ago
ooh im early
1:50 After watching so many Jacksfilms haiku videos, its strange hearing haikus read without the song lol
2250 is money laundering, prototype and engineering samples with less then 20 known units range from 1-2k
never underestimate how much game collectors are willing to pay 😉
@SageArdor When a engineering sample, serial #0001 console costs 1k$, you know this price of this is inflated. 99% of games don't sell, the merch that does stands out. Prerelease merch and engineering samples are in completely different ballparks in value. This game shouldn't be bought for more than 400.
THE NEW VIDEO 😆😆😆
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